Photos: 10 extreme haunted mazes and attractions

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Knott's Berry Farm

For $60, the Trapped maze at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park takes up to six people through a labyrinth of locked rooms with increasingly dire scenarios. Participants must solve puzzles or make unpalatable choices to escape each room and ultimately the maze itself.

For $60, the Trapped maze at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park takes up to six people through a labyrinth of locked rooms with increasingly dire scenarios. Participants must solve puzzles or make unpalatable choices to escape each room and ultimately the maze itself. (Knott's Berry Farm)

Busch Gardens Tampa introduced the "solitary scare experience" in 2010 at Howl-O-Scream with the $35 Alone maze. The premium price, which increased to $80 this season for up to four people, hasn't scared too many people away.

Busch Gardens Tampa introduced the "solitary scare experience" in 2010 at Howl-O-Scream with the $35 Alone maze. The premium price, which increased to $80 this season for up to four people, hasn't scared too many people away. (Busch Gardens Tampa)

Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom also introduced a new maze called The Passing at this year's Fright Nights with a $5 up-charge fee for each person in the party. With a suffocating burlap sack over their head, each person is sentenced to death and must blindly make their way through the...

Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom also introduced a new maze called The Passing at this year's Fright Nights with a $5 up-charge fee for each person in the party. With a suffocating burlap sack over their head, each person is sentenced to death and must blindly make their way through the... (Thorpe Park)

Horror fans' continuing thirst for more extreme scares has spawned a new generation of reservation-only haunted mazes at Halloween theme park events. The new up-charge mazes come in direct response to a niche industry of standalone haunted attractions that limit the number of people in a maze...